Cisco Developer Contest: the ten finalists

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"Now, during the second phase of the contest, started from May 15, 2009, until August 15, 2009, the top-10 finalists will work with Cisco to bring the applications to maturity using Cisco resources on Cisco virtual AXP blades. After a final judging period, a winner will be announced in October 2009.

"These finalists come from four different continents:

"North America: Team Cupertino Systems, Team Service Enabled Networks and Team SNAT

"Europe: Team MADnetwork, Team Bugsbernie and Team RSDevs

"South America: Team Jin Jin and Team Campuser

"Asia: Team Ideate and Team Enhancers
There are two teams of three, three teams of two, and the rest are individuals. They come from diverse backgrounds including many who are entrepreneurs, some are students and others are techies who've entered the contest for the fun of it. Their motives range from "taking the family to Disneyland" to "continuing higher education"."

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